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Blue Lock (ブルーロック, Burū Rokku), stylized as BLUELOCK (or BLUE LOCK), is a Japanese manga series written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and drawn by Yuusuke Nomura that has been serialized in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine since August 1, 2018. The manga has resulted in 29 tankōbon as of May 2024. A spin-off manga Blue Lock: Episode Nagi also written by Muneyuki Kaneshiro and illustrated by Kōta Sannomiya that has been serialized in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shōnen Magazine since June 9, 2022 resulting in 4 tankōbon volumes as of May 2024. In 2022, an anime adaptation by 8bit produced 24 episodes in its first season. A second season aired from October to December 2024, consisting of 14 episodes.
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The story begins with Japan's elimination from the 2018 FIFA World Cup, which prompts the Japanese Football Union to start a programme scouting high school players who will begin training in preparation for the 2022 Cup. Isagi Youichi, a forward, receives an invitation to this programme soon after his team loses the chance to go to Nationals because he passed to his less-skilled teammate - who missed - without trying to make the game-changing goal by himself.
Their coach will be Ego Jinpachi, who intends to "destroy Japanese loser football" by introducing a radical new training regimen: isolate 300 young forwards in a prison-like institution called "Blue Lock" and put them through rigorous training aimed at creating "the world's greatest egotist striker."
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